Analgesia and sedation in surgery Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

Analgesia and sedation in intensive care unit.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Many Intensive Care Unit (ICU) patients present pain. The administration of analgesics and sedatives is crucial for patient comfort and to reduce stress, as well as to prevent delay in recovery and ventilator weaning. The objective of the present study was to conduct a review on analgesia and sedation in the ICU. CONTENT The present study reviewed the causes of pain,...

A Practical Guide to Sedation and Analgesia in Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (ICU)

All critically ill children have the right to adequate relief of their pain Correctable physical and environmental factors causing discomfort should be addressed using non-pharmacologic interventions before the initiation of pharmacologic interventions. The choice of sedative-analgesic agent and its initial dose are selected on the basis of several factors such as cause of the distress, desire ...

Sedation, analgesia, and paralysis in the intensive care unit.

Analgesia and sedation in paediatric intensive care unit.

Analgesia and Sedation in pediatric intensive care unit Volakli E, Sdouga M Treating children in an intensive care unit aims at the reversal of physiologic derangement of their organism while caring for comfortable physical and psychological environment. Any correctable environmental and physical factors causing discomfort should be addressed before the introduction of effective analgesia and s...

Remifentanil for analgesia-based sedation in the intensive care unit

Providing effective analgesia and adequate sedation is a generally accepted goal of intensive care medicine. Due to its rapid, organ independent and predictable metabolism the short acting opioid remifentanil might be particularly useful for analgesia-based sedation in the intensive care unit (ICU). This hypothesis was tested by two studies in this issue of Critical Care. The study by Breen et ...